The prism doesn't allow for any exit, each edge is facing in, the three sides don't allow for resolution, but rather a continual turn inwards and around (they don't call it a love triangle for nothing). Jesse is in the apex of her lust, and she just might stay there forever. This is the best sex scene of the film.

And yet, The Lobster also reminds us how difficult life is when you’re in love-- it’s nice sharing dreams and future plans with someone, but you also have to share pain, even though it’s so much easier crying alone.

The only thing on the island more oppressive than the weather is their lust. Eventually each of them succumb to each other. Every new indiscretion is heralded by the land - a fierce wind, a frenzy of cicadas. The island itself is teeming with some phantom energy, a heat that remains from the long dormant volcano.

Richard Linklater calls Everybody Wants Some!!the “spiritual sequel” to Dazed and Confusedand the “cousin” to Boyhood—there’s always that low key sexist cousin in the family who you don’t have much in common with, isn’t there? He may as well rename this film Fuckboyhood.

His lapsed Catholicism inspires a brief internal thumb-war between moral duty and theological loyalty and really makes you reflect on how, if you think about it, you may have never met a Catholic who isn’t lapsed.

Not once did teachers warn us about forming parasitic relationships with our fake friends and gas-lighting sweethearts. Not once did we think of ourselves as wild, living organisms. Note how I say “living” instead of existing. There is a difference.